The alien is at least truly alien, in motives and action. The technology was fine, and info-dumping kept to a minimum, but I was never thoroughly engrossed in the story or bonded with Ian that much. I don't like cutaways to the evil geniuses revealing their plans to the reader, but not the hero. These include a corrupted AI golem, who proves to be a fairly ferocious opponent. ,Meanwhile we gets lots of cutaways to the gang he just about managed to foil in the opening, who's surviving members are all sworn on revenge. Ian investigates why one of the planetary ftl exchanges exploded. When he almost fails a mission because of this the service head (immortal really?) "asks" him to remove the connection prior to going on his next mission. Here our agent Ian Cormac, has been 'gridlinked to an AI for over 30 years and has started to lose his own humanity, preferring the instantaneous information of 'online' over any real human interaction. Kind of fun, a bit like Altered Carbon, the basic premise is that of an enhanced secret service agent helping to keep humanity safe (ish) against various threats.
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